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20 September
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds got really stupid this season. It's like the creators decided that the basic Star Trek premise is totally played out, and just decided to do silly fun stuff with their remaining budget. Related
19 September
American science fiction novelist (Old Man's War, Redshirts, The Kaiju Preservation Society); has run the blog Whatever since 1998.
If it's a signed first edition it's not entirely out of line, but otherwise you can just come to one of my signing events and I'll sign your copy for free, or for the holiday season call my local bookstore and order a copy there and I'll sign/personalize it and then they'll ship it off. Quoting @msudogsrule.bsky.social Hey @scalzi.com … seems a bit steep? Related
18 September
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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Chokepoint risk does more than spike the spot price for a season. It re-prices geography permanently: it redirects the next decade of pipeline and terminal investment and hands a windfall to whoever sits on the alternative route.
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16 September
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
Founder and editor of ToolGuyd, a tool review site covering power tools, hand tools, workshop equipment and EDC gear. He writes under his first name on the site.
15 September
Data scientist and machine-learning researcher; chief scientist at bitly, founder of Fast Forward Labs and Hidden Door.
It seems like there's a wave of cool advent calendar design (LEGO! jams! puzzles!), but do any companies make a version that isn't anchored on Christmas? Related
14 September
Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.
ChatGPT gift cards are live in the US! Gift cards give people a new way to share ChatGPT with friends and family. They also bring ChatGPT to the places people already shop for gifts, ahead of the holiday season. Recipients redeem their card at https://t.co/oX1jDGtz1t to add funds to their wallet, then use the balance for eligible subscriptions, renewals, and usage-credit purchases on ChatGPT web. Redemption is currently available in the US for accounts billed in USD. OpenAI Related
13 September
Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.
Football season is upon us. The Baltimore Colts and the SF 49ers were my football loves for decades. This summer, friends forced me to watch full World Cup soccer matches. I fell in love with soccer. Our football look pretty puny by comparison. Related
11 September
Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.
Seaton: And Now, Sports Football season is here again, friends! The stadiums are packed with cheering fans, parking lots are full of tailgaters, and somehow I’ve once again decided the actions of a bunch of young men aged 18-23 will decide my…
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9 September
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.
3 September
British historian, translator and broadcaster; author of Rubicon and Dominion, and co-host of The Rest Is History podcast.
I finish a rehearsal with @MarinaHyde for the must-see show of the season - THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF REGENCY LONDON!!! Lady Melbourne! Lady Nelson! Lady Hamilton! Jane Austen! Plus - Lord Byron’s ultimate ex!!! Related
30 August
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
I kinda hated S1 of Tires It just didn’t work and wasn’t very good Gave S2 a try and thought it was very funny Just finished S3 and I absolutely loved it Funny, creative & weird The season finale is one of the best TV episodes I’ve watched in a while Bravo Shane Gillis Related
27 August
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
26 August
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
We’ve officially moved from subletting my apartment season to looking for a sublet season, that’s how you know summer is over Related
20 August
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
8 August
Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.
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I usually do not enjoy poetry in translation, but this is so fiery and full of passion that I am happy to recommend it.
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4 August
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.
20 July
Physician and neuroscientist at the University of Washington; researches brain health, metabolism and athletic performance.
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there are meta analyses of these interventions in older adults showing that ballroom and line dancing have the greatest effect on cognitive function. And so both of those require other people as well as learning you know various sets of of movements.
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17 July
Climate scientist and energy systems analyst; writes The Climate Brink with Andrew Dessler and leads climate research at Stripe.
30 June
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.
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Comparing this to The Fifth Season, it is striking how different two fantasy novels about worlds over-supplied with natural disasters, and the people with the psychic gifts to stop those disasters with their minds, can be in tone and execution. This is immensely fluffier, but it has no pretensions to be anything except candy, and succeeds as such.
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18 June
Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.
17 June
Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.
7 June
Creator of the iPod and co-creator of the iPhone at Apple, founder of Nest, and author of Build.
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So, you know, like what's called fast fashion, we got fast software. But software, if you're going to build a real company, can't be throwaway.
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31 May
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
OH in coffee shop: “The final season of America is riveting.” Response: “But we’ll be disappointed with the finale. Just like Game of Thrones.” America Related
20 May
Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.
How to Design Your Summer Have you ever felt, toward the end of a summer, that you wished you’d done more with the season? The writer Robertson Davies, put it well: “Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless…
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8 May
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.
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The result is something that's beautiful, sharp, critical and lingering. Long after I closed the cover, I found myself mulling over the delicate ways that Lai raised the contradictions, sorrows and beauty of queer love, racial identity, camaraderie, self-control, and self-indulgence. Lai's characters have no answers, only questions that can never be fully resolved. Instead, these questions are the defining puzzles, defeats and triumphs of their lives.
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14 March
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Cheng’s experiment is cool! Especially this: “instead of starting with easy sudoku puzzles data and gradually ramping up toward harder ones, the training runs that start with harder puzzles and end with easy puzzles always fare better, and also fare better than mixed difficulty sampling” Quoting @_chenglou I’m very happy to present my toy research project: Sotaku! It's a neural net that automatically discovered the rules of sudoku and learned to solve them, achieving a new state-of-the-art score of 98.9% on one of the hardest sudoku datasets, while being agnostic to the game, and beating all other su… Related
2 February
Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.
26 January
Neuroscientist and novelist writing on consciousness, artificial intelligence and culture in the newsletter The Intrinsic Perspective.
21 December 2025
Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.
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I’ve heard numerous sportswriters call Halberstam’s chronicle of the Portland Trailblazers’ 1979-80 season the best sports books ever written.
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14 December 2025
Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director; writes the weekly newsletter Maybe Baby on culture and consumption.
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The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemison (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky): Triple-Hugo winner. Stunning world-building. Really fun to escape into a series—haven't done that in years.
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The Door by Magda Szabo: My all-around favorite. Addicting, deeply charming, devastating. A protagonist I'll never forget.
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12 December 2025
Environmental writer and campaigner; author of Six Degrees, The God Species, Seeds of Science and Our Final Warning.
Is it over for nuclear? As the renewables + batteries electro-tech clean energy revolution gathers pace, do we still need those hugely expensive giant reactors? Join me and Bryony Worthington for our Season 2 ender podcast episode... we went out with a bang! weplanet.org
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26 November 2025
Writer of kottke.org, one of the oldest blogs on the web, published since 1998 and supported by its members. He writes about art, technology, science, design and visual culture.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season three). Maybe didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the previous two season, but I love spending time with these people and look forward to doing more of that when season four drops. (B+)
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21 October 2025
Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.
Solving regex crosswords with Z3 For a while now, I’ve been fascinated by Z3 and by SMT solving more broadly. While on pat leave recently, I was reminded of the existence of regular-expression crossword puzzles, and allowed myself to get nerdsnip…
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10 October 2025
American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.
114 testimonials from our 2025 season For twelve seasons I’ve asked our clients to complete a post-trip survey to gather feedback about our guides, locations, meals, and curriculum, plus their overall satisfaction. Reviewing the results is a time commitment…
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4 September 2025
Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.
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So the instant assumption is, okay, so you can tell female from male. No, we can tell laying female from everything else. So males won't have medullary bone. Young females won't have them. Females outside of the breeding season won't have it.
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26 August 2025
Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.
Raspberries “These are the last of the season,” she said, spooning all the plump, bright red raspberries into my bowl.
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21 August 2025
Co-founder of Panic, the Portland software company behind Transmit, Coda, Nova and the Playdate handheld console.
We're also announcing today that "Ratcheteer", a fan favorite from Playdate Season 1, is coming soon to your computer as "Ratcheteer DX", complete with COLOR GRAPHICS. Thank you for supporting our weird little games. I hope you have a good day. store.steampowered.com
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2 August 2025
Runs global health R&D at Open Philanthropy; writes about the science and medicine that could exist and does not.
1 July 2025
Author of The Simple Path to Wealth and of the jlcollinsnh.com stock series on index-fund investing.
10 June 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
A tale of two Claudes It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of…
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26 April 2025
Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the blog The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Ben Carlson.
There was a lot to like about the commentary from Q1 earnings season. I'm afraid we'll hear a different story next time. Related
21 March 2025
Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.
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Part memoir, part raw, honest reflection, part useful ideas for a pathless life. I loved how this book didn't follow a non-fiction formula. His 'on-season'/'off-season' approach was useful for me.
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3 December 2024
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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Whether you already know a lot about the ’60s or you’re just dipping your toe into those waters, whether you want a deep dive into the art of political writing or a charming story about a married couple who adored each other, you’ll get it from An Unfinished Love Story.
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1 December 2024
Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.
18 October 2024
Machine-learning researcher at Cursor working on post-training for coding models; a professor at Harvard and then Cornell from 2016 to 2026, and a researcher at Hugging Face from 2019 to 2024.
16 October 2024
Writer on a lost civilisation of the Ice Age; wrote Fingerprints of the Gods and presented Ancient Apocalypse. Archaeologists reject the claims, which he disputes at length.
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It’s often said that I’m claiming to have proved that there was an advanced lost civilization in the Ice Age. And I am not claiming to have proved that. That is a hypothesis that I’m putting forward to answer some of the questions that I have about prehistory.
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19 August 2024
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.
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Season of the Witch -- a cultural history of San Francisco from the late 60s to the early 80s.
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6 June 2024
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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.
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Rather than declining, the second season is better than the first.
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22 April 2024
Machine-learning researcher at Cursor working on post-training for coding models; a professor at Harvard and then Cornell from 2016 to 2026, and a researcher at Hugging Face from 2019 to 2024.
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